Know about Pakistan’s JF-17 Thunder which downed two Indian fighter jets
JF-17 Manufactured in Pakistan – “A Step towards Self-Reliance”
By: Rizwan Mahmood
JF-17 thunder fighter jet of Pakistan downed two Indian fighting jets this Wednesday, 27th February 2019, as they were trying to intrude Pakistan’s airspace. One fell in Azad Kashmir, while another went down in the Indian occupied region of Jammu & Kashmir. “ALLAH HU AKBAR”. Pakistani forces have made us proud and proved their supremacy over Indian forces.
I am sure people of my motherland would be amazed to know that JF-17 thunder fighters are being manufactured by our talented engineers and it’s a joint effort of Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) Kamra & Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) of China. JF-17 costs just the third the price of an American manufactured F-16 but it has proved during Wednesday’s operation that it’s not less than any other fighter plane.
I salute to my brave PAK Army specially squadron leader Hasan Siddiqui for his successful operation and congratulate my entire nation for this great success. Here, I would also like to pay a tribute to engineers and scientists of Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) who have worked hard and proved that we are not less than anyone else and manufactured “JF-17” in Pakistan.
By manufacturing JF-17 Pakistan did not only avoided blackmailing of principal companies as we have faced during the procurement of F-16 from USA rather we saved billions of rupees that we would have to spent for spares, repairs and upgrades of foreign precured fighter jets.
This success shows that we have extraordinary talented engineers and can re-engineer any complex designed equipment and solutions by ourselves. It’s right time for our government under the great leadership of Imran Khan to decide and make Pakistan self-reliant in all technology requirements. For this purpose, government must pay special attention toward technology and its re-engineering sector on priority basis and have to make it sure that we don’t import any foreign solutions and equipment in near future. This will not only make us self-sufficient in technology but will also help us to reduce the cost of public sector foreign procurement which is the need of time. Furthermore, we don’t have to look towards anyone else when in need of spares, repairs, upgrades etc. which again saves a lot of money.
Due to our current financial condition we are not in a position to buy expensive equipment and solutions from other countries at very high prices. So, we need to make our self as capable as that we may not only fulfill our own technology requirement, but we can sell these solutions and equipment to other countries as well. I am sure we shall find a huge market segment to sell our products.
JF-17’s success is a proof that we have talent, and if we may have right direction and government support then we have capability to make any complex system in Pakistan.
The writer is Islamabad based IT Expert, A Poet, Consultant and Entrepreneur. He can be reached at [email protected]
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